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During the pandemic, Microsoft Teams has become a popular tool for recording podcasts because it provides an easy way to bring in guest speakers. In this article, Jason Wynn shares his top best practices for recording podcasts using Teams. With the future of podcasting changing all the time, content creators are starting to realize that…

There’s no doubt that file systems are some of the most fundamental cloud services, as they provide storage for cloud-native apps, hybrid apps, and on-premise backups. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection across your AWS services. Using AWS Backup and its new support for S3, you can centrally…

Microsoft is launching today its new CloudKnox Permissions Management solution in public preview. The cloud infrastructure entitlements management (CIEM) platform provides Azure Active Directory (AAD) customers with a unified solution through which they have visibility over users, identities, and permissions, as well as workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The CloudKnox Permissions Management dashboard Microsoft…

Microsoft has announced this morning some improvements for its Defender for Cloud suite. The company says that the Microsoft Defender for Cloud service will now provide native support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments, and this capability is currently available in public preview for all enterprise customers. Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly known as Azure…

Microsoft is planning to launch a new AI infrastructure service called “Singularity.” In a research paper published yesterday titled “Singularity: Planet-Scale, Preemptive and Elastic Scheduling of AI Workloads,” the company explained that this new AI platform service should help to minimize the cost of artificial intelligence (via ZDNet). With Microsoft’s Singularity distributed infrastructure service, data…

The Terraform AWS provider lets you connect Terraform with Amazon cloud services such as AWS Elasticbeanstalk, AWS Lambda, etc. And unless you have the Terraform Amazon Web Services (AWS) provider defined, you cannot manage or work with Amazon Web Services. But no worries, in this tutorial, you will learn everything you need to know about…

Microsoft Teams has released a new update that allows users to find the local time of their co-workers by checking their user profile cards. Laurie Pottmeyer, Teams Community Lead at Microsoft, announced on Twitter last week that this feature has started rolling out to the desktop and web apps. To view the profile card in…

Windows 10 makes it easy to download and install fonts to use in programs and apps. Learn the various methods and websites you can utilize to grow your fonts collection on your Windows PC. How to install a font in Windows 10 Let’s go through how to install a font in Windows 10 using the…

Microsoft is launching a new integration between its Viva service and Glint, a popular employee engagement platform acquired by LinkedIn back in 2018. The company says that Glint is set to arrive in Microsoft Viva in 2023, and it will help organizations improve employee engagement by providing actionable insights. For those unfamiliar, Glint provides tools…

 Cloud Conversations is a weekly podcast that we’ll be featuring here on Petri. It’s about everything connected to cloud computing, including technologies like Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), Microsoft Defender, Windows, Intune, and much more! Cloud Conversations – Sara Lagerquist on Power Automate In this episode, Kat and Ru catch…

GitHub is getting new AI-powered code scanning analysis capabilities that should enable developers to identify the most common security flaws in their code. The company has launched this new experimental security feature in public beta for all GitHub users, and it supports JavaScript and TypeScript repositories. With this new code scanning analysis tool, developers can…

This week in IT, Microsoft releases an optional preview of new experiences for Windows 11 due to reach GA in March, including support for Android apps. There’s a big update for Insiders on the Dev Channel with tons of new features, like taskbar drag and drop support and Start menu app folders. And Google takes…